Mary Jo Bang

Mary Jo Bang is the author of seven collections of poems, including The Last Two Seconds and Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher was published in 2012. A forthcoming book of poems, A Doll for Throwing, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.